International cigarette labelling practices

International cigarette labelling practices.

DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS Members of GLOBALink (), an Internet listserve for tobacco activists with members in 56 countries, who were asked to provide specific information on cigarette warning requirements in their countries. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Presence of specific warning labels, overall content score (based on a 0-10 scale with a point for each specific warning mention...

Cigarette pack labelling practices in Nigeria-Implications for policy recommendations

Background: Cigarette packaging has been reported to be a major means of promoting initiation and maintenance of cigarette use. This may impact on smoking habits in low and middle income countries where tobacco related burden is high. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of cigarette pack labelling practices in a local government area in southwestern Nigeria. A data collection instrument wa...

Consumer understanding of cigarette emission labelling.

The optimal way to display constituent levels (e.g. tar) on tobacco packaging has not received adequate attention but has important policy implications. Adult smokers and non-smokers (n = 836) were surveyed in France using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing to assess perceptions of constituent levels displayed numerically (brand-specific tar and nicotine numbers from smoking machines and t...

Eco-labelling, Environment, and International Trade¤

An international analysis of cigarette affordability.

OBJECTIVE To investigate how affordable cigarettes are in developed and developing countries, and to calculate by how much the affordability of cigarettes has changed between 1990 and 2001; and secondly, to investigate the relation between cigarette affordability and consumption. DESIGN Affordability was defined as the cost of cigarettes relative to per capita income. Trends in cigarette affo...